Adriana Plata Blanco
Moderator
IntegrHabitat Centers: Shaping Integration in the Territories
An innovative approach for social integration and habitat co-creation in cities
June 27, 2022 | 16:30 - 17:30
UN-Habitat Arena
Inclusive Cities, Communities of Solidarity
Colombia
Polish, English, Spanish, CART (English)
Reference:
Arena 2
Streaming on UN WEB TV
Summary
IntegrHabitat was born as a strategy to lead, promote and accomplish effective integration in cities facing social, economic and territorial struggles related to the arrival of traditionally vulnerable populations. IntegrHabitat centers are developing successful and innovative approaches to cope with this challenge and effectively integrate communities, bringing together a wide range of actors to provide services and activities that allow communities to have access to information, care, social protection, and socioeconomic opportunities, as well as activities to empower communities to improve their neighborhood conditions.
Objectives
- Present the Centers of Social Integration and Habitat Co-creation - IntegrHa-bitat and the International Network as an innovative approach to tackle the challenges of effective medium-and-long-term integration of vulnerable communities in the cities.
- Recognize and highlight the successful experiences of IntegrHa-bitat Centers in the cities as vehicles of change and community empowerment for inclusive neighborhood transformation, promoting social and spatial cohesion based on new models of co-creation and coexistence in diversity.
- Acknowledge opportunities of scaling up or replicating the successful experiences and good practices of the IntegrHa-bitat Centers.
- Identify and consolidate financing opportunities to sthenghten the IntegrHa-bitat's International Network and allow to scale-up identified successfull experiences and best practices.
- Broaden the scope of action of the IntegrHa-bitat's International Network in other cities and countries where the strategy is not implemented yet.
Session speakers
Speaker
Role
Organization
Country
Mr. Roi Chiti
Andean Countries Office Coordinator
UN-Habitat
Mr. Jose Samaniego
DIrector of Americas
UNHCR